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East StratCom disinformation claim:

The US elite is preparing to rig the upcoming presidential election in favour of Hillary Clinton. Moreover, it was the Democrats that were behind the hacker attacks on voter databases in the spring of 2016.

Debunk claim:

Most media and analytics agree that it is extremely difficult to organize an election fraud on such a scale, because the US election system is highly decentralized and varies from state to state. http://www.businessinsider.com/hard-to-rig-an-election-2016-11 // American security officials are convinced that Russia-backed hackers were behind the voter databases attack. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/election-cyberattacks-pro-russia-hackers-have-been-accused-past-n673246